Ten students representing - at that time newly established - Centre for Art and Ecology UMPRUM took part in a week long art festival consisting of practical workshops with a theme of the Japanese Edo period.

The Japanese society, when confronted with extreme restrictions resulting from the island’s isolation from the rest of the world, approached scarcity with huge ingenuity. This resulted in the unique, globally known Japanese aesthetics, from gastronomy to architecture. In the contemporary context of the climate crisis, how might limitation produce creative solutions, and change our relationships with one another and the world around us?